Culture Days / Doors Open

Next weekend, September 27 & 28, 2014 is Doors Open London.  London is one of the oldest host cities in Ontario. Combined with Culture Days, this year’s event is themed on “I love culture”.

Kym Wolfe and I will be at Doors Open Site: Attic Books to talk about the process of creating a book from inception to print, including the collaborative process, tips for self-publishing, and how they marketed/promoted our book 'Barhopping into History: London, Ontario'. Q & A starting at12noon and 2pm.

Attic Books, 240 Dundas Street

Sketching Dundas Steet

Before work on Wednesday, spent a couple of hours sketching downtown. This is view of Dundas Steet, north side, from 3rd floor of library. Started drawing the interesting brickwork on facade of The Yew Tree building, with the contrasting One Londo Place in background. Next door to that is Attic Books. I had never been there, and I had a  few estra minutes before work, so I stopped in.

Attic Books is one of the largest second hand booksellers in the country. I purchased "Historic Streetscapes of Huron County"  from April 1981, written and illustrated by Nicholas Hill. What great little book with lovely pen and ink drawings from all the small towns of Huron County, where I grew up. Interesting I was not charged tax, because it was local history book.

Sketch of Dundas Street